Was the late Queen Elizabeth’s death an example of ‘ordinary dying’? This article examines what it means and what this case study reveals.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Death is part of life and is something we all need to face, not only our own death but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives.
Category: Health
How can we prepare for death while ageing? This article explores...
Category: Health
Learning from palliative and end of life care.
Category: Health
Erica Borgstrom, a medical anthropologist and lecturer at The Open University, explores why death from coronavirus is not the type of death we expect.
Category: Health
What would you do if you found out you had a terminal illness? Hear more from some of the people in 'A Time to Live' as they discuss their experiences of dealing with just that.
Category: Health
Reasons for individuals chosing to end their life vary - is there one straightforward answer to the question 'do we have the right to die?' or is it more complicated than that?
Category: Health
What are the legalities of assisted suicide, is it accessible for all and should it be?
Category: Health
As a society, we're starting to look death in its hollow eyesockets and pull it into the light. But how scared do we remain of death - and is it healthy to have a bit of anxiety when staring into the great beyond? Jonathan Jong explores.
Category: Psychology
Richard Wilson, a funeral director and a crematorium designer are just some of our experts talking death.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives on death; ethical issues related to dying and end-of-life care; as well as expressions of grief.
Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
This free course, Death and medicine: postponement and promise, helps you to explore the extent to which death and dying in western societies are medical events and what aspects of death and dying might be neglected as a consequence. The course covers the way that such things as medicine provide the context of the experiences associated with the end of life.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on Sunday 5th of September 2021.This free course, Living with death and dying, explores how knowledge of and beliefs about death and encounters with death affect people's lives. It will also examine the concept of a 'good death' from an individual perspective in order to enhance the quality of dying.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on 26th May 2021.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
This article explores experiences of children and young people’s death anxiety as a result of COVID-19, and the impact of the pandemic and death on staff working in care establishments, and how grief was reported in UK newspapers.
Category: Mental Health
David Bowie's later work showed him taking on the taboo of death with the vigour he'd used to break barriers of gender and identity, says Elizabeth Tilley.
Category: Music
What does David Bowie's last single tell us about his attitude to a death he almost certainly was expecting?
Category: Music
Do we have a right to die? What are the moral and ethical implications of assisted suicide?
Category: Philosophy